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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 109 posts.

2014
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Announcing the C++ FAQ

In addition to CppCon announced earlier this week , today the Standard C++ Foundation is pleased to announce a new unified C++ FAQ . The following introduction was written by Herb Sutter.

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Kotlin M7

Kotlin M7 is here and with it some long awaited features. Compiler and Language Changes Inline support One of the biggest features of M7 is support for inline functions. Kotlin encourages the use o

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Popular Myths about C++, Part 1

[For your winter reading pleasure, we're pleased to present this three-part series of new material by Bjarne Stroustrup. This is part one; parts two and three will be posted on the following two Mondays, which will complete the series just in time for Christmas. Enjoy. -- Ed.]

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Programming with Nothing (2011)

I love Ruby! I’ve used it every day for years and I’m not sick of it yet. It’s an easy language to love: it’s expressive, flexible and syntactically beautiful ; it has a unique combination of useful features like mixins , metaclasses and blocks ; it comes with a useful core library and comprehensive standard library …